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/?> CL >7{ \ IJortljeast tflforgiaa. PUBLISHED ON WEDNESDAY MORNING H. H. CARLTON & Co., Proprietor**. II. II. CARLTON, Editor. TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE COPY. One Yenr, - $ 2 OO i• l VE COPIES, One Yenr, .. 8 78 fES COPIES, One Year, .. 13 OO V//r Official City Paper Hates of Advertising. 1 i * ! •* i 4 <*); 5 00 i ft 7.5 6 75 . 7 251 3 50 • S 7510 25 .to 2.5 12 oo Ml 75 13 75 ► 13 25 15 50 ► 14 75; 17 25 I lf» 00 IS 25 i 2512 0 00 12 \ 12 0o 16 < 14 50 18 ‘ 17 00 21 l 10 50 24 ' 22 00i27 ( 24 50 29 27 00132 I 20 25'36 i 31 50 37 16 14 25 10 «m 17 14 75 li* 75 is 15 25 20 50 .. .ii oni.i. IS 50 21 75 33 75!10 I 10 75 23 25 36 0o,42 21 00 24 75. SS 25 45 i 22 15 26 25140 SOU* . 23 50,27 75142 7ft 50 i 24 5o -20 (Nij44 75!52 : 25 50 30 25 46 73(54 { 26 50 31 50,48 7ft 56 ' o 27 50 32 73 50 75 59 < 5 2N .Vi 34 00 52 75 6! 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Sales |*»r square .5 00 1.; \ r.dleetorN >alcs, |»ei- square ft 00 loreeloMirr Mortgage, |»er aquaiv, each time. 1 00 Exemption Notieea tin advance) 2 00 I’, dr N ;*i -, per -quart. each time. 1 00 Business & Profes’n’l Cards. Fnrsrcmw. n u \ U FOX OFFERS HIS PUOKESSION- al Services to the citizens of Atheus aud • Drue Mo A 0. M» CURRY, • . V. Attorney at Law. HARTWELL, GEORGIA. V\7"ILL civestrict personal attention 1 ¥ toad Lti'inevs entrusted to bis care. \.uu>t I, 40—ly. FRANK HARALSON, .1 T T (> RXE Y AT L A W, CLEVELAND, CSA., Will prm tice in the counties of White, Union, • ed to his care. 41-tf • 8. M. HERRINGTON, ilarv Public and Ex-Officio Justice of the Peace. • uver L. .1. Lampkins'store. March 31-6m. (J. THOMPSON, Attorney uu z^ s ~ > tentiou paid toCTiuiinalpaactlco. _ ... I*. 1 :.,V X IV W'allt and 1 • vv » lalpiACttro. For apply to Vix. <iov. T. I!. Watts and Hon. lopion, Montgomery Ala. Office ovar Store, Athens, Georgia. Feb.S.tf. Ass M. Jackson,. .L. W. Thomas, JACKSON & THOMAS, Attorneys at Law Athens, Georgia. AOUli, ERWIN & COBB Attorneys at hair, ATHENS, (i A. •fS.e in tit. Pooprre Building. IulTttleT Attorney at haw,, CAUNESVILLF.. OA. c w A MAP OF | BUSY LIFE. Poetical Rain in tbe Heart. “ Into each life some rain mn»t fall." If thia were all, oh ! if thin were all, That into each life tome rain rniut fall; There were fainter sol* in the poet'a rhyme, There were fewer, wreck* on the shore* of time. But tempests of woo pans over the soul, Since winds of anguish we cannot control, And shock after shock, we are called to bear, Till the lips are white with the heart's despair. The nhorcs of time with wrecks are strewn, Unto to the ear comes evsr a moan— Wrecks of hopes that set sail with glee, Wrecks of love, sinking sibntly. Many arc hid from the human eye, Only God knowetli how deep they lie; Only (tod heard when arose the cry, ** Help me to bear, oh ! help me 10 die." " Into each life some rain mu.st fall," If this were all, oh ! if this were all; Yet, there's a refuge from storm and blast, Gloria Patri—we’ll reach it at last. Be strong, be strong, in my hem I cry. The pearl in the wounded shell doth lie; Days of sunshine are given to all, Tho’ into each life some rain must fall. Tlie Creed of the Fain re. * I don't believe in either God or Man, Conscious Automata, we nothing can, Save as our atoms feel tyrannic chance ; All is hereditary aud circumstance. Conscience—Petr\rill—absurd ! And if you a-k How on these terms fulfill life’s dally task? What motives ? A ud what conduct ?—look at me; One more respectable; you'll scarcely see. As family man, friend, citizen, professor. Be you, or public judgment, my assessor." "Good, my dear sir!—but we must wait, I doubt, To notice how your grand children turn out, Born in tbe doctrine, reared upon the plan, Of total disbelief in God and Man. Let this experiment be fairly made, Nor Science mourn, by her high priests betray’d; • loVC. Oh, let lier teach them, from their l.ndorct youth, j Most truly thanking VOU for all The Trunj^thii whole Truth, nothing but the your parental kindness in the past, Materl.IAU.rn,, and Mechanic Force; j “®- V it , b ? hc “ rt ’ s , desi re. by And ,rnd the boy, and girl, rejoicing on their “ ClS 0t love and Obedience, to Strew j flowers along your pathway, and may 1 your setting sun go down beyond its j western horizon, canopied with tbe j brightest tapestrv of brilliancy and ! gold. | Congregation of Israel, I ask that I I may take my place with you to-day, [ among the people of God. Awed by the memories of the past of God’s deal- 1 ings witli his people, inspired by the golden promise left to us, in this sol- emn manner of mv own free will, I pray God that I may lie an “ Israelite indeed.” Brethren, let us remember the teach ings of Gmi’s word. Lot us be hum*, bio followers of Him, and when this life with all of tt- shall have passed, may we meet on the hanks of the Beau* tiful river, mingling with the patri- SJIchA .U"-.'sinJ»i '** ’ ence of our God. i In childhood’s halcyon days, each game, each play was made more joyous , still, as you were always near to lend 1 your cheerful presence, causiug new j scenes of happiness to spring up around me, making homo the sweetest and I dearest spot on earth; and as youth . dawned upon me, when rainbows of ' ho|>c have spread before me, guilded with the brightest rays, beckoning me 1011 with the sweetest imaginings, there too, you have been faithfully by my i side inspiring me with good and pure (thoughts, and stirring ray heart with i noble resolutions. I You have not forgotten the com' I niand given to our people by the God' j commissioned Moses, “ to write the j law of God upon the tablets of your j hearts, and to teach them to your chil dren.” To-day, in the presence of this congregation, I acknowledge that you have faithfully kept this solemn in* junction. Here before these witnesses, i yea, in the presence of the great God, I avow that you have dilligcnlly sought j to store my youthful mind with truths I in God’s Hold Word. With line upon j line, and precept upon precept, you ! have endeavored to instill into my ! mind and heart those great truths the confession, acceptance, and obeyance j of which will guide 111c safely all along 1 the dangerous journey of life, gather ! my alieci ions from the fleetiug joys of I the present, cause me to long for tho . lasting pleasures of eternity, and bind ' my wayward heui t to God. In a little j while, my parents, with you "thesils I ver chord will be loosed, aud the golden j bowl be brokenin a little while, j even if my life is spared, I shall lose your sweet companionship, counsel aud Song oT the Bell, Muny a year iu the tower I’ve swuug. Many a song of joy I’ve lung; Many a tale af sorrow told. Hinging here in the belfry old. And ovar the walla, fast crumbling away. Before the hand of grim decay; In winter and summer, the ivy climbs, U|* where my mimic daily chimes. I sing for the bride, iu her rubes of white; I siug to hal! the morning light; And gloomily toll o’er the silent dead, Peace to the soul forever fled. And I shall ring in tower here. Full many and many a coining ; < nr ; For the fair young bride and the quiet tiny, Of the earthly ft.rm* that pass away. £ ommunicalions. n. A I.OCHr.ASF.. JOHN MILLF.DGE. LllHRANE & MILLED6E, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Al LA SI A, GA. OiVico, No. 2} Pryor St., Opp. Kimball House. Jun? 2, i»;s. 31-fim ■■ t jj«rtht>ast r=eomJan. Mr. Editor:—Being present at the Synagogue on Saturday last, I had the pleasure of witnessing the ceremony of confirmation of Moses G. Michael, son of David Michnel, and being much impressed with the beauty of the address delivered by the young gentle* man on the occasion, I secured, and herewith hand you a copy of the same. Very respectfully, 'G. Jacobs. Athena, August lGfA, 1875. ADDRESS OF MASTER MOSES G. MICHAEL. As memory sweeps o’er the star crested past, recalling tho grandeur of other days, proudly must throb each Iraelite’s heart, as he reviews those glorious times. He remembers that his race was selected as the chosen people of God. That among them were the Patriarchs, who saw the births at their annual meeting in September J 01IX T. OSBORN, Attorney-at-Law ELBERTON, GA. Will practice in th*» counties of th«* Northern u mt, lttnk», Franklin aud l!ui»ernham of the '«**urn 1 inuit ; will give special attention to 11 Lint* '-litrusted to hi* care. Jan. la, l»74—ly.i« and deaths of many centuries. That to them were Holy Prophets given, whose Heaven inspired ken swept far across the then present, into the dis* taut future, reading the fates of Era* pires and Nations. Warriors were among them, too, before whose milita* rv prowess there was no force so strong as to withstand the sweep of their Poets were theirs— r S. DORTCH, f * Attorney al hair, CAKSE.SVII.LL, OA. E. A. WILLIAMSON, I'KACTICAL VfMCHMiRER and JEWELLER Al Dr. King’11 Drugstore, l-f'.U) STREET ATHENS, GA c * 'll,,irk ,lnne in , mRarinr manner, and »..rr..n!e l to jive MUnticlioB. Mi tcel!ancons Selections. A LETTER FROM JEFFERSON DAVIS. We publish with pleasure, the fob lowing manly and characteristic letter from Hon. Jefferson Davis, to the Secretary of tho Winnebago, Ill., Fair Association. Memphis, August 19, 1875. To Henry F. Kimball, Secretary Win* nebago Agricultural Society, Rockford, Illinois. Dear Sir : I yesterday sent to you a telegram announcing ray revocation of my conditional acceptance of the invitation to ndilress your association action of your board in their invituti to me to make tbe annual address at the county meeting, thereupon I sent you a telegram withdrawing my ac ceptance of your invitation, nnder the conviction that it would not be useful or agreeable to participate in the meet* ing,_ and I hope that neither your asso ciation nor the directors will suffer harm by the delay in procuring an orator, or bj the correspondence which has caused if.. Third, the object was to gratify a wish long entertained to see in its cultivated dress the country known to me as a trackless desert. But that being merely a personal grat ification, it may be indulged in at my convenience, or postponed indefinitely. I can well believe that the cause which has changed my purpose was ns un foreseen by you as by me, aud you may be assured that I feel no dissatis faction toward the directors or yours self, and have suffered no personal em barrassment from the event, as the in vitation was unexpected and only ac cepted as an expression of general good will; so my only regret is the lost opportunity to promote the public in terest, with which the welfare of your community is identified. Again ex* pressing the hope that neither the dis rectors nor yourself may suffer injury or annoyance, and thauking you for the kindness and consideration you have manifested, I am, respectfully yours, Jefferson Da vis. Limitation or Indebtedness. The Missouri Constitutional Conven tion has adopted tbe provision limiting local indebtedness to live per cent, of the assessment. The Telegraph and Messenger says of the comments of the Chronicle and Sentinel, and we fully endosse tho views of each: We heartily agree with the Chronicle Sentinel “ that it is a very commenda ble restriction—not ns efficient a pro* THE REV. JOSEPH STRIKER. Over in W. one of the churches re cently called a clergyman named Rev. Joseph Striker. In that city, by a mpet unfortunate coincidence, there .4 STRANGE HORROR. The St. Louis Republican of Satur day says: Some time since Thomas Donohoe, living on the east side of _ , Benton, between Marceau and Clay afeQ resides a prominent prize-fighter ‘'hwts was notified to abate a nuisance named Joseph Striker, and rumors | consisting of a full privy vault. To were afloat that the latter Joseph was 1 cflect this he had a new vault dug be- about to engage in a contest with a s *J e the old one, about twentysfive feet %P ugilist for the championship, f * a depth and five feet across. He had Oar Sheriff considered it his duty to j stated his iotention to move the con* warn -Joseph against the proposed in- ! tents from the old to the new vault, fraction of the laws, and so he deter- a "J then have the old one cleaned mined to call upon the professor of the art'of self-defense. Unhappily, in in* (jui.nng the way to the pugilist’s house, somebody misunderstood the Sheriff. anAsfnt him to the residence of the Reyv^serii' 'Striker 1 , of whom he-faad nefler heard. When Mr. Striker ens tered the room, in answer to the sums mans, the Sheriff said to him famil iarly: * ‘ Hello, Joe! How are you V Jtr. Striker was aiuaScd at this ad dress but he politely said : ‘ Good morning.’ _ [ Joe,’ mid tho Sheriff, throwing his leg lazily over the arm of the chair, ‘ I carne around here to see about that mfl with Patsy Dingus, that they’re all talking about. I want you to un derstand that it can’t come off any* where’s around here. You know well enough its against the law, and I ain’t gding to have it.’ -/Mill! Mill! sir? What on earth do you mean?’ asked Mr. Striker, in ajjtonishinent • I do not own any mill, rM. Against the law! I don’t under stand yon, sir.’ ‘Now see here Joe,’ said the Sheriff, biting off a piece of tolmcco and look- 5 very wise, ‘ that won’t go down th me. It’s pretty thin you know, know well enough that you’ve put Hail he done this the fatal catastrophe would not have occurred. Instead of so doing, however, he concluded to save expense by draining the contents of the old vault into tbe other, and had intended to do the ^prk daring last night. For some reason, however, he changed his mind, and went down in the new vault yesterday afternoon about 2 o’clock to tap the wall. He hail uo sooner made an opening in the brick wall than a deadly volume of ’ gas, always present in outhouses, rushed through the aperture. A sin* glc iuhallation was sufficient to para lyze his strength. Almost in an in stant his hold on the ladder loosened ami he fell to the bottom of the pit a corpse. A young man named Charles l’runty, a boarder at Donohoe’s house, soon afterward remarked that Donohoe was gone a long time, and went to see what was the matter. On looking down he saw the lifeless form lying half hurried in filth at the foot of the ladder. He shouted an alarm to several others who were within hearing, and then rushed heedlessly down the lad der, probably thinking to extricate the body before life should become extinct. Those who had heard his call and seen him hurriedly enter the vault, ran im- Up 81,000 on that little afiair, and that * mediately to the place, but wheu they you’ve got the whole thing fixed with arrived, could hear no answer to their Bill Mart in for referee. I know you’re anxious inquiries as to what was the going down to Pea Patch Island to trouble. Peering into tho depths of the have it out, and I’m not going to allow horrid pit they could discover the two it. I’ll arrest you as sure as a gun, if bodies lying together at the bottom, you try it on, now mind me.’ ! No doubt the second man had been ‘ Really, sir,’said Mr. Striker, ‘ there overcome by the foul air as soon as ho must be some mistake about—’ I arrived opposite where the wall had ture trouble if allowed to. The prohibi* ‘Oh no, there isn’t; your name is '‘ecu tapped, and had perished instant- tion is very positive and peremptory, as Joe Striker, isn’t it?’ asked the Sheriff. *V- By this time quite a crowd had g ‘My name is Joseph Striker, ctr* ' collected, and among them was a young tainly.’ i man named James Henry. He not ‘ I knew it,’ said the Sheriff, spitting j supposing the men dead, and seeing on the carpet, ‘ and you see I’ve got j *be necessity for instant action, pres this thing dead to rights. It shan’t pared to descend to their assis- enme off, and I’m doing you a favor in : tancc. blocking the game, because Patsy'd ! With greater prudence thau the one exceeding five per centum on the value curl you nil up aud sicken yon any* 1 "'bo had preceded him, he tied a rope of taxable property therein ; nor shall way if I let you meet him. I know about his waist and arranged that at a bo’s the best man, and you’d lose your signal those above were to draw TOTTTSCfltBVyyli-ftwaed«n besides: ! him out. This agreed upon, he went *1 do not know what you are refer* f°r s6me QV VfioiLP??-' ! 'ble, the helpless ring to,’ said Mr. Striker. ‘Your re* «•»“*.-*. : * ■ — marks ore incomprehensible to me, but your tone is very offensive, and if you have any business with me, I’d thank you to state it at nuce.’ ' Joe,’ said the Sheriff, looking at him with a benign smile, ‘you play it phylatic against the evils of debt as it would have been adopted fifteeu years ago, but still a wholesome restraint against a tendency that would breed fo il ought to be; it declares that no subdi vision of the State, county, city, town, township, school district, or other rau* uicipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted iu any manner, or tor any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate next. The long period which has elapsed since the receipt of your first letter, aud the considerate courtesy which has marked your correspondence make it my duty to the board and my self that sufficient exploitation should be given of this change of purpose. Three objects mainly induced me to accept the invitation: First the hope that personal intercourse might re move somo of the prejudices which whirlwind charge. the sweet breathings of whose poetic . - numbers, still holds a world entranced. J had been generated by partizan fac- Indeed, Judges, Priests, Sages and tions anil nurtured by individual and Kings, whoso holv teachings, words of j sectional hate. Anxious as in former any debt be incurred within this limita* .1., gsMS’ir.Y’fir'ifir.ir’iME cient to pay the interest on the debt a? it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same, shall be submitted to a vote of the qual ified voters at an election held for that purpose after reasonable notice and shall have the assent of two-thirds such voters.’ “ The effect of this will bo to arrest the contracting of debts of all kinds— not only funded debts, but that species of floating indebtedness implied in coun ty and city warrants, which are worse than the other The language is com prehensive. No county, city, town, township or school district shall be al lowed to become indebted in any man ner or for any purpose.’ This is a pro hibition not only of bonded debts, but of expenditures in exeess of income, also, and it will have application to all mu nicipal governments like those of St. Lotus and Kansas City, which, for years past, have been in the habit of spend* fug annually more than their income.” If wo ever have a convention in Georgia, we hope some such provision will be incorporated in the new cousli* tution, even if the convention does nothing else than put it there. It would amply pay tne tax payers of Georgia tu have such protection against the waste of their substance, if they can receive no other relief from present evils. ^hrtidt'ffiy IN SEARCH OF A MISSING HUSBAND. The other day a tall, thin woman from over the river hunted around Vicksburg until she found Coroner Blessing, whose retiriug disposition and prompt attention to business are certain to make him famous all over the State within the coming year, and when she was certain of her man she inquired: ‘ Business ain’t driving now, is it.’ ‘ Well, nothing to brag of. I get a floater of a nigger now and then, but it isn’t anything like old times.’ She heaved a sigh and continued : * Sam is missing.’ * Sam, Sam,’ he repeated. ‘ Yes, my old man. Its nigh on to 12 weeks since he started to crops the river about six miles above here 1 , and I’m getting anxious. I thought I’d drop down and see if you remembered of having sot on such a man.’ ‘ About twelve weeks ago—I believe I did pull in a floater some ten or eleven weeks since.’ ‘ Was he a tall man?’ ‘ Yes, I think he was.’ ‘ Have a long nose and brick colored hair?’ ‘Yes, I remember now.’ ‘ Cow»hide shoes aud a yellow coot * Yes—I got that very man!’ ‘ Ariz to the surface and was pulled in here, sot on according to law, and duly buried ?’ ‘He was, madam. And do you believe that the body wa3 that of your husband ?’ I know it. He could drive mules or paddle a dug out with any man in Louisiana, but he couldn’t swim worth cobs. His eanoe flopped over, he went under, and that’s tne reason he didn’t come home.’ ‘ And do you want the body ex* limned so as to make sure ?’ ‘ Was he put down to stay ?’ * Ho was well buried, madam.’ 1 Well, its ’bout as well to let him stay there. He’s probably fell away so that I wouldn’t know him, and I don’t feel like having my nerves strung up.’ ‘ Well, I’m very sorry for you, madam. If I could have identified the body I would have sent you word right away.’ It’s all right. I’ve felt in my bone3 for morc’n two months that I was a widder, and the shock don’t stagger me like it would at first. I’m sorry, for Ram was kind.’ ‘ Yes, it was bad.’ ‘ But he ought to kuowed better, when he couldu’t swim. I told him aud told him and told him, and that day I told him again, and he hollered back, ‘ shut up!‘ .v. j. v* - PUBLICATION OFFICE: Ao. 7, GJIAATTX KOI}, (Up-Stalrs,) ATHENS, GEORGIA. Rates of Advertising: Transient advertisements, ofone square or mow $1 00 per square for tke first insertion, and 7ft cents for each subsequent insertion. L All advertisements considered transient except where special contract! are made* Twelve lines spate of this type (or one inch make one square. EUFor contract prices, see schedule. chau h . .. men and tossed his arms as a sigmf drawn out. An instant ho hung sus- i *•* _ • *”— r~. ■ t . i ■ ■ pended in the air and it seemed to those " hen I wake up m the night I shatTl who were watching him from above, j " or ^J 80 muc h that a deadly pallor had overspread his pay ? , face. Strong arms tugged at the rope, | * No, nothing, and the daring man, perhaps already Is there anything to ^Y. A.. WINN, WITH (J HOOVER, STUBBS & CO. Cotton Factors, —AND— jfiimal Commission Merchants Savannah, Ga. Hissing, Tir*, I*opp, and other Supplies fur- •H'ht-vl. A No, Liberal Cash Advance* made on ‘•niignments for*»le or shipment to Liverpool Nonli.-rn ports. myno-tf liieij, Feed and Sale Stable, ATHElTSj GA.: ''• V ' SN REAVES... .PROPRIETORS \yiLL BE FOUND AT THEIR *1 lt'i.iusvr ,,4U 1 r, * ar Fnrohlin Houtebulldinf, outs an,i r :;V . *'***l» *lwny» on hand good Turn- 8*t«ckwr|| '“ lr,Ter *- Stork »q » 1 Ii , r} f,,r when entrusted to our care. M r,r »3ie at all tiroes. declVtf wisdom, aud royal bearing, stamped their impress upon the whole people, causing them to become truly noble We^descendnnts of this honored race, have met this day to recall the teaching and commands given to our fathers. Could the majestic form of Moses, that grand old prophet, warrior, lawgiver and judge, commissioned by God himself, stand among us to-day; could we hear his voice, the unequaled leader of Israel’s hosts, with the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night as his battle flag, saying, “ Parents, at the age of thirteen, bring thy sous into the congregation of my people, and there let them take upon themselves the solemn vows of consecra tion to God’s service,” me thinks a deep feeling of awe would fall upon us, and the present would almost be for gotten in recalling the grand old past. True, no majestic form is seen, no pretty well. Anybody would think you 1 am. ^“3^^ I It’s Ste hafo to’havIfo^oMman L innocent as a lamb. But it won’t The go under that way, but I ’spose the work Joseph; it wont work, I tell you. which in the exatement of the Lord knows best The Bi bio says we I’ve got a duty to perform, and I am P > , . j nsecure i y fastened, cometh up to be cut down, and I sop* ts d *”” u “ 11lgi.br.il ..dseiid Bp fur ten' nbjhad goiic bdbre. And lb. felt to sw if her mectacle The men above looked aghast at this owe was safe, and started for home.- terrible mishap. Wbafc was to be done? t usfaburg Herald^^ The question was soon answered. Au* Tiiat’s So.—The rich man wants ’ -* Schhcktij years to promote the interest of our great valley of the Mississippi, and be lieving that with mutual confidence and co-intelligence much could be done for their advancement, I only delayed my acceptance of your invita- tiou until it became reasonably proba ble that it could he met. The produc tive capacity of the northwest needs for its developments cheaper and safer transportation to markets of the south west and also to those foreign countries in England especially. ^Earnest at tention has been directed for several years past to more direct and econom ical trade with the Mississippi valley. In this connection, there was a desire to confer with the patrons of husband ry in your rich and prosperous sec tion, to discuss with them the questions involved in securing better meaus of transporting your farm produce to the most favorable markets, and provi- which should insure I’m in earnest years, as sure as death, about it.’ What do you mean, sir?’ asked Mr. Striker, fiercely. O, don’t you go to putting on any airs about it.* Don’t you try any strut ting licfore me,’ said the Sheriff, or ‘ I’ll put you under bail this afternoon. Let's see,’ how loDg were you in jail the last time? Two years wasn’t it? Well, you go fighting with Dingus and you’ll get ten vears, sure 1’ ‘ You are certainly crazy 1’ exclaimed Mr. Striker. * I don’t see why you want to stay at that business, anyhow,’ said the Sheriff. ‘Here you arc, in a snug home, where you might live in peace aud keep respectable. But, no, you other young man, Joseph Schlictlig, payments. Tho poor man wants volunteered to make the descent, and | wor ^. j, e must j kave W ork to get his was foolishly permitted to do so. lhe 1 ( j a ;] y bread. The poor man wonts to Distance from the Sun.—Pro* fessor Daniel Kirkwood, Professor of Mathematics in Indiana University, contributes the following to the Indi anapotis Journal: The earth’s mean distance from the sun, as deduced from Encke’s discus* sion of the observations made on the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, was 95,298,000 miles. Till within a few years past, the accuracy of this determination was not called in ques tion. So lately as 1854, Dr. Lardncr, in his “Haud*Book of Astronomy,” affirmed that Encke’s value of the dis tance could not vary from the truth by more than its three-hundredth part— Quito recently, however, astronomers have been led, by various considera tions, to regard the distance as some what too great, and hence the results of the observations in December, 1874, with the improved instruments of mod ern construction, have been looked for sickening details can be spared. In a a y bis debts; he wants to pay the na- few short minutes a fourth victim was t j on . g j e bts, and he will, if you let him added to the number, and the tale of I wor jj. It is a disgrace to American horror was closed. A police officer c^ii^tion, that thousands upon thorn- went to the station, obtained some I ga n ds of working men and women are hooks, aud amid tho most profound out 0 f wor i£. Whnt is tho remedy for sorrow on the part of all there assem- these hard times? Tbe rich man says bled, the lifeless bodies were one by Lp^e. Hecountshisbondsandmoit- one drawn out upon the ground. gages, and reckons the difference be- The men who lost their lives by this tween g 0 hj aud greenbacks, and finds unparalleled accident exhibited quail* j t b a t specie payments would make him Klllu ,„ ties embodying a strange combination ric b er; an( f because ho is richer, he must as>ociate with low characters, and; of reurage and rashness. thinks the country is richer, because im to -triDDine vourself naked, and, "dl, perhaps, serve as a warning he thinks he is the country. Suppose jumpin'' into airing to get your pose those who are thrown by any circura- L y the present process of contraction hlnnilie<1 and vour head swelled, and stances into a similar danger. j and 8tarv j ng , J0U bring greenbacks up your body hammered to a jelly, and all W ife —Iu com- to where , ar ? y° u B° ,n 8“• for what’’ Wbv. for a championship! T HE . A ' r „ A „« nt u. r gold to pay the interest on the public It's ridiculous ’ What good will it do panson with the loss of a wife, all other £ y \Vhero are you going to get tho 6 ‘This i-fthe most extraordinary con- pelf 80 unweanedlyfor thepranous Where U the poor man goin^;to get the Striker. ‘5ou evidently take me for, ^ besideher and think 0 ftlJ- a<M< * Oamsde. a * luriu 13 ra., -- (ling agencies — . 1 • mmmnndine voice is heard to (lav. larger returns to farmers, and by^such wit h a lively interest The discussion us the law. Yet, God. by his | conference, to learn the views of one - • w " honored servant, Imsspoken— and from the Holy Bible, we read the royal edict. You. my much loved parents, iu obe dience to the great command, bnvn summoned roc here in the presence ot this congregation, that yon might, in part, surrender that guardianship which you have so long and so faith' . J . 1 Inntm fnr | member of each family of the Missis sippi valley. A family, the chief in terest of all members of which is agricul ture, but cultivators of such vuriuus crops as to make trade among them selves extensive and lucrative, while it stamps upon each and all the same in terest and the same policy as to their of these observations has not yet been completed. It is known, however, that the resulting value of the sun’s hori- zoutal parallax cannot differ material ly from eight seconds to eighty-seven hundredths of a second. This corres ponds to a mean distance of 91,875,- 000 miles. Wc are, therefore, nearer the sun by 8,423,000 miles than was J”” - n j leave for foreign trade. To render such confer-1 believed hut a few years since. The fully exercised over me, lea ence g , !freclua i t t | iere must needs be a distances of the planets are to be di me to ask a place amo g P*°P | j- to ul t end to the subject un-1 m i a ished in a corresponding ratio—the ““* , T p, .. past. It seems an amber-colored path- How Greenback Paper is Made. 1 take you for Joe S 5‘,, wav where the sun shone on beautiful _AU the paper for the money issued you keep on, 111 take you tojaiR saiu, g 0 ; ver8( or die stars hung glittering k y t h e United States Government is the Sheriff, with . : overhead. Fain would the soul linger I manufactured on a sixty-two-inch you tell me who has got the stakes, and !there No lhorns are remembered Foundrinier machine, at Glen Mills, who s your trainer, and 111 put an end ^ ^ t(l0se your hands may unwillingly near West Chester, Pa. Short pieces to the whole thing. | have planted. Her noble, tender hwrt 0 f red silk are mixed with the pulp In «V°U seem to imagine that lam a ( ^ to your inmost sight. You t he engine, and the finished stuff is pugilist, said Mr. Striker. L«t me tbink of her ^ all gen tleness, all brau- conducted to the wire without passing mform you, sir, that I am a clergy* ^ - ty But s h e i s dead. The through any screens, which might re- ‘“‘V . -i .u ci -w am— dear hand that laid upon your bosom, tain the silk threads. By an arrange* Joe, sa'd the Sheriff, shaking his restg - n the gt ;u darkness upon a pil* meat a bove the wire cloth, a short head, it is too bad to ho that way i ow 0 f clay. The hands that have I pi^g 0 f fi ne blue silk thread is dropped too bad, indeed. , nl i n istered so untiringly are folded, f n stre aks upon the paper while it is • But 1 am a clergyman, sir pastor alld cold, beneath the gloomy being formed. The upper side, „fthc Church ofSt. bepulchre. Look whic h the blue silk is draped, is liere is a letter in my pocket, addressed.» ^ heart whose ever y beat raeas* one used for the face of the notes, and, 10 “J? 1 , . ! U red an eternity of love, lies under f rom the manner in which the threads You don t really mean to say that { The flowers she bent over are applied, must show more distinctly Striker?’ exclaimed ing scared. and^^ow you a barrelfu?of ser- j ke ^ fc ^nge “ahush in even-1 Jra’ctfen eff anv’papcr.^Paper^Trede BACKING DOWN. A man took umbarge at an article which appeared in a paper published in the town in which he resided, as personal, the other day, and in an irate manner entered the office, and inquired of the first one he met who wrote that article, showing the paper, and point ing to the one in which he took excep tions. “ Said he,” (raising his voice in a loud key, and with clenched fist high in air), “ I want to see the editor that wrote that article." You do,” answered the young man interrogated. “ Yes, I do,” answered the stranger, angrily. “It is satisfaction ! come- for, and will have it, and before I leave here, too; do yon hear and andhrstand that?” “ All right,” said tho young man. ‘.But before I call him, I would like to ask you if you ever saw the gentle man before.” No, of course, not,” was tho savage answer. “ 5Vhy do you wish to know?” “ O, nothing very particular. I thought if yon did you would not care to see him.” That’s just what I come for, young ; and there will be fun, you bet.” Well, stranger, I tell you before hand, he is a powerful man, stands six feet two in his stockings, weighs near two hundred, and owns two fists that strike tremendous blows; when angry, his eyes flash fire; his tread is like an elephant, and be can lift a tbree-hun* dred-pound weight with perfect ease, and top it over his shoulder as easy os 1 could a base-ball. No one dare a£* ; preach him in an angry mood, for they ': would be in danger of their lives. He has held an elephant’s trunk for ten minutes, can put his arm around the neck of a horse, end turn him over with comparative ease. He has done powerful things,,I tell you, stranger. Besides, he always carries a six-shooter, and is an excellent shot, scarcely miss ing the bull’s eye one time oat of twelve^ Stranger, he is the counter part of Samson, of old.” During the young man’s brief recital of tbe personnel of the editor that wrote that article, the stranger turned very pale, trembling all over, backing all the. time towards the door, out of whidir he suddenly darted, and has not been heard of since, doubtless deeming it wiser to depart quietly than to en counter such a formidable opponent A Few Commissions.—Habitues of the summer hotels and watering pla ces, says the Boston Commercial Bulle tin, “ will recognize the following as a correct specimen of the domestic dia logues which take place while the pa- t6rtamjjjaa.is_waiting for the omnibus motive:” .- ' “■ You have got the pattern for the muslin, my dear?" “ Yes." “ And you won’t forget Charley's slippers and my bathing dress in the lower bureau drawer?” No, darling.” And the cold cream and camphor from the upper shelf in tho closet, and; to bring us some books from the lihra- . ry, you know, and a bottle ot co-,' logne.” “ And toby’s caps, you know, and tell the dressmaker about having mj dress sent by the express, for I want it for the hop. And do ask Annt Maria to send my driving gauntlets; I forgot them.” “ Anything else?” “ No, darling, nothing, only if you could step over to ma’s and ask her to, lend me that purple and white hood, and bring me down tha* oe#mm um- > brella, and my India rubbers to wear wheD we go out in tho boat, it is so damp that—” ' • • “ Stop, darling! I’ve just thought of something I’ve got to do myself." “ What is it, my dear ?" “ Why, I want to run in my store for five minutes for my own business, if there’s any time left after transact ing yours.” p “ Lor,’.now, Charles, I hope yon are not going to be disagreeable about a few little errands, Tm sure.” Charles—“ Oh, not in the least, on ly I haven’t quite got used to this ex press business yet, and I ran only give nine-tenths of the time to it this sum mer, that’s all, tootaicums—there’s the engine whistle.” Good-by, dear; don’t forget the MISS C. S. POTTS, fashionable liessraakeii 0VKR UNIVERSITY BANK, Broad Street, Athens, VV respectfully inform the A lin'd, ,1 ni1 friend* **ne—*» SlVySSL»nd < mo*t Fashionable Styles. IU * Wltu ic»wvm W —.— * 11 , father and my mother, as I recall tuc watchful rare, the unselfish love, and unnumbered acts of kindness wbicn you have bestowed on me. During the helpless hours of infancy, you were indeed, my guardian angels. During flll i ik. 1 hours of sickness, when fever parchod my litre, and throbs of pain mantled h« i. now pr»p»rVd to ro y £row, through tho lone hours 01 tho night in its silent watch, how pa* tiently, how lovingly you hovered around my bedside ministering to my every want. Second, an effort was made to rec ognize the courtesy of your beard, and I was encouraged to believe that your reception of roe would be beneficial rather than injurious to your associa tion. This was the more snpposable because several other agricultural soci eties of Illinois had, in like manner, invited me to address their annual meetings. Yesterday I received a prin ted paper, it being a protest of a num ber of your countrymen, against the nezzar r said the Sheriff; ‘ this is aw- " h ® 8 ™^ e d«S’ e t!cks,"on?strikM and I The Northern Pacific railroad, with redaction in tbe rase of Neptune, tbe most remote, amounting to no less than 100,000,000 miles. Society is infected with rude, cyni cal and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good man ners, forms accepted by the sense of all, ran reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables are like terriers who conoeive it the duty 0 f» dog of honor to growl at any pMsanftff* 4o tbe bonoraoi the boose by barking him out of sight.— Emerson. greet you tt — 7 *.!ph 3 ’ music^when she I all its franchises, has been sold by order ii,Tl ”55 UttaOmM. ri.uka in enliro b, ot .b. h..r. *«*«*»»«• -ty fepsSr^.sr'sSi.'MSffi full Why, I mistook you for Joe Striker, the prize-fighter. I don't know jdKn“ ^.'nto 1 Lr.r.^.gm^8»*.bbx^d how to apologize, but if vou want to cd the siiaao b Hutchison and Denison, representing kick me down the front steps, justkicR 8W ^ d ve the clock repeats the general body of bondholders, who away; m bear it like an angeTl’ j /•’ anot her tale it I have, or may hereafter, assent. There Then the Sheriff withdrew unkicked, worda and was no competition in the price, and and Mr. 8triker went np stairs to finish | .pmstered above Y'on the nominafsale merely results in the his Sunday sermon. TheSheriff talked ^l^hhow ofteSShatithe grave transfer of the company’s property to of resigning, but he still holds on.— feel oh. tio b the bondholders, who, upon the surren- cannot keep^er. I der of the bonds, will receive stock in —Max Superstition changes a man into a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of harden. —haHarpe. • But the rest of the sentence was lost in the rattle of wheels that bore Charles on his way to town. Our Girds.—It is a study worthy of an artist to look at a group of our Southern girls sitting and talking, to gether in any public assembly, or a private party at an evening gather ing- There is in the girl of only fifteen or sixteen years of age, so much genu ine grace and ease, dignity and self- possession of manners, that it astonish es while it pleases. They know ex actly how to smile: the polite smile of constrained attention, the happy smile of pleased attention, the sweet smile of glad welcome to some fortu nate arrival, and the polar smile of ioed dignity on one who intrudes upon a favored companion in a tete-a-tete. We reflect: do these sweet and hap py faces carry their sweetness and hap piness into the home-cirele? Is it smiles or fretfulness there? The first duty of politeness is to be polite at our homes. Tbe firet law of amiabilty Is amiability to father and mother, broth er and sister. The most beautiful charm that ran adorn character is the charm of a tender reverence, a sweet affability, loving sympathy, a polite and graceful demeanor ia the privacy of the home-circle. For a fit of idleness—count the tide-1 the reorganized company. ,ncr of a dock; do this for an hour, I . , 7 * . and you will be glad to pull off your Sweets in adversity—A sugar-house coat tho next and work like a negro. \ failure. What men want, said Bolwer, is not talent, it is purpose ; in ottor WJtob, not the power to achieve, hot the fciu to labor,